Debbie Hagan > Debbie's Quotes

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.”
― Rita Zoey Chin, Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir

“If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh.”
― Rita Zoey Chin

“because if he found the church, I could look for the grave. And if I found the grave, he’d found the church. So we kind of did it on that basis.’ Putting it like that, if she found the grave, whether or not they found the church seemed not really to matter.”
― Mike Pitts, Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King